WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) v3
wow-instant-messenger
WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) is a World of Warcraft addon which brings an instant messenger feel to communication in game.
Features
- Whispers in their own windows.
- Chat in their own windows.
- Tabbed windows
- Highly configurable.
- History
- Copy and paste as:
- Raw Text
- BBCode
- Advanced, intellectual window behaviors & animations.
- Skins
- Emoticons
- Clickable web URLS for easy viewing. No more retyping a long url a friend sends you.
- Customizable sound options.
- Expose - great way to clear your screen of windows when you are in combat.
Known Issues
- Addons can not process messages while chat is in lock down. To get around this, WIM logs all events and then rebuilds and processes them once you have excited lock down. During this time, chat is routed as normal to the default chat frame so you don't miss anything. Unfortunately, /r and similar keybindings to reply during this time will NOT work. Allowing the default chat frame to handle these events cause severe tainting issues and breaks everything.
- Community Chat is now supported. It comes with limitations though because the sender name and message are protected and can not be read by addons or saved.
- No filtering
- No History
Addon Compatibility: (Always make sure you are running the latest versions.)
- Prat
- DBM
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Posted Jan 25, 2026In reply to Ais_Wallenstein_:
Is there any rhyme and reason for when it happens. For example, is it a cross-realm user, etc?
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Posted Jan 29, 2026In reply to RealPazza: https://github.com/Legacy-of-Sylvanaar/wow-instant-messenger/issues/208
it forces you to do Name-server and if you remove server SOMETIMES it works but most of the time it triggers the lua error then stops working. see my photos for the report.
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Posted Jan 30, 2026In reply to RealPazza: there is no rhyme or reason for this. I am not trying to go cross realm or anything.
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Posted Feb 11, 2026In reply to Ais_Wallenstein_: https://github.com/1broccoli/wow-instant-messenger
I Fixed that.
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Posted Jan 24, 2026A version for Midnight is available at: https://github.com/Amadeus-/wow-instant-messenger (there is even a custom release on that page, 3.14.6a)
I also created a pull request for the author, should they return and want to make an official update. It also explains what was changed: https://github.com/Legacy-of-Sylvanaar/wow-instant-messenger/pull/206
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Posted Feb 11, 2026In reply to Cerec: lol. I did the same for the tbc version.
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Posted Jan 24, 2026This did the trick, thanks! <3
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Posted Jan 23, 2026I went back to version 3.14.4 and it's working ok
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Posted Jan 23, 2026In reply to whitie: THANK YOU!!!
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Posted Jan 23, 2026I'm sad, WIM shows as incompatible. I did delete, and reinstalled, but still no go. :'(
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Posted Feb 11, 2026In reply to furious_dubinsky53: thats usually when the .too version doesn't match the current game version
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Posted Jan 23, 2026The addon has stopped working for me. I just get a quick outline of a box on my screen for a second that goes away and nothing else.
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Posted Jan 22, 2026Can confirm this also just worked for me! Thank all the stars because I was lost without it!
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Posted Jan 23, 2026In reply to DeviLynDanger: worked for me too
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Posted Jan 21, 2026Found a temporary solution to avoid WIM to be flagged as incompatible...
Been gambling with the lua file and noticed the line with game version stated 120001 instead of 120000, just replaced the value with 120000 and now it works
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Posted Jan 21, 2026In reply to khoinoor: this works on the new update (from like a few days ago)? ive been struggling my ass off with this and using an older version and editing the .toc manually. which lua file exactly did you mess with?
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Posted Jan 21, 2026Thank you for mentioning that toc file. Replacing the version number there worked like a charm!
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Posted Jan 21, 2026In reply to sheldorh: yep, changed the 120001 or whatever to 120000 and now the fully updated version works for me yay!
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Posted Jan 22, 2026In reply to yavana238: unbelievable how they suddenly decided to not load out-of-date addons at all, even when you explicitly check "load out of date addons", which didn't use to be the case so far. Thanks a bunch!
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Posted Jan 18, 2026I am currently testing add-ons because I have to completely rebuild my interface with Midnight. For this purpose, I have also installed WIM version 3.14.5. However, this is displayed as incompatible on the PTR. The checkbox for “Load outdated add-ons” is selected.